The Apprentice: Killer means winner
Take your pick: fraud; extortion; attorney misconduct; sexual assault; '80s hair… [full review here, or grab a paid sub and get all editorial in your inbox...
October 2024 Bonus Review: Citizen X
The crimeAndrei “Red Ripper” Chikatilo’s surpassingly disgusting serial murders. The storyCitizen X, 1995's HBO movie on Soviet law enforcement's fits-and-...
This Is The Zodiac Speaking is worth hearing out
The crimeA series of unsolved murders in California in the 1960s; child endangerment. get the rest of SDB’s review straight to your inbox with a paid...
Read-Handed: The true-crime texts on our minds right now
Prison, Manson, Nixon and more in our longread log! (Keep reading here)
Hackers, Hoosiers, and the Black Dahlia
The crimeThe Black Dahlia case. The story"The Black Dahlia mystery: Wild theories, enduring myths and a long-overlooked suspect," by Christopher Goffard for...
The Docket 10.24.24: Fall Classics
Say it ain’t so, Joe. (Wikipedia) Heading into the 2024 World Series, we're championing (...sorry) the baseball/crime properties we recommend, from A-Rod to...
Woman Of The Hour: There are no winners here
The assaults and murders of at least seven, and possibly as many as 130, women and girls by Rodney Alcala. (Netflix) The storyAlcala is often called "the...
I'm Not A Monster: A "killer grandma" and the heart of darkness
The crime/sThe 2018 murder of David Riess by his wife, Lois, possibly catalyzed by frauds she'd committed against other family members; Lois's flight from...
The Docket 10.17.24: The Erin Lee Carr Reader
Long a favorite filmmaker of ours, documentarian Erin Lee Carr has two projects out this week -- I'm Not A Monster: The Lois Riess Murders and Fanatical: The...
Anatomy of Lies expertly explains the Elizabeth Finch scandal
Photo of Elizabeth Finch from Anatomy of Lies. Credit: Jennifer bayer/Peacock At its heart, new Peacock docuseries Anatomy of Lies is a con story, but not...
The Hunt For The Chameleon Killer takes too long
The crimeThe 1990 murder and dismemberment of bank employee Beverly McGowan – by, police suspected, her roommate of recent vintage, "Alice" – and the...
The Docket 10.10.24: Is Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal TOO out there?
The latest docuseries from the Duplasses, Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal, looks at various supernatural "cases" -- not just what really happened, but...
Making the case for The Menendez Brothers
The crimeAs noted in my review of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, "the 1989 murder of José and Kitty Menendez by their sons, Lyle and Erik…but...
The Docket 10.03.24: Joan and the art of the steal
American netlet The CW imported ITV's Joan as part of its...whatever it's doing now; EB and SDB don't understand what the six-part docudrama on legendary...
Unsolved Mysteries goes Full Spooky Season
Still from Unsolved Mysteries, Volume 5. Credit: Netflix "How does that work?" my husband asked me when I first told him about Netflix's 2020 revival of...
September 2024 Bonus Review: Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein
Juuuust in case the subject line doesn't imply it strongly enough: content warning. The crimeMultiple murders, as well as grave-robbing and desecration of...
The Docket 09.26.24: How (Not) To Get Rid Of A Body
Investigation Discovery's How (Not) To Get Rid Of A Body premiered a few weeks ago; we watched the first ep and had some thoughts. Should it have been called...
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and the sins of the sons
The crimeThe 1989 murder of José and Kitty Menendez by their sons, Lyle and Erik...but also possibly the rapes of Lyle and Erik by José, and maybe also by...
The Docket 09.19.24: Programming Anna
With Summer Of Scam "headliner" Anna Delvey joining Dancing With The Stars (NB: we recorded our ep the week before Delvey's debut, so we didn't know how it...
A Very Royal Scandal: Interview with the empire
The crime"Participation" by Prince Andrew, Duke of York in sexual activities with a minor. Allegedly. get this and our other full reviews in your inbox; grab...